Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-10

| is very wrong. They are actuated by the
hest and purest motives. and are not
! going to be driven from their position by
any amount OF abuse Wills Point
Chronicle.
It is to the order, peace, intelligence,
industry, morality and religious stability
of the community that business is in
debted for its prosperity. The saloon
makes business, but for the undertaken,
the policeman, the criminal court, the
Insane asylum and the penitentiarY. 1t
fills poor-houses and paupers' graves. 1t
supplies rags, squalor, wretchedness,
filth, misery and poverty. Since Atlanta
has adopted prohibition the butchers sell
more meat to poor people. The poor buy
more shoes, hats, bonnets, dry goods
AID groceries, and they buy less whisky.
Within two years IN Atlanta,
Ga, the dry goods trade has greatly
inU-oa sed. Women that never wore a
millinery made bonnet before are now
able to purchase such things, because
their husbands DO not spend their earn
ings in the saloons. - is one of the most
egregious errors to suppose that a saloon
improves business. 1t saps the springs
of business by absorbing the Shall aCcu-
mutations of labor. In Providence, r. l.,
a city of $4,000 inhabitants, s.uce
prohibition was adopted less THAI
q year ago, crime has greatly dimin-
ished, there being now only about
half the arrests that there were be-
fore. II Kansas there has never been
such general and great prosperity as
since the adoption of the amendment. If
the United States would adopt prohibl-
ton there would be a saving Of over q
billion of dollars annually that is now
wasted and this vast sum would stimu
late every branch of business So that
there would be no strain or tension any
where, and the mighty conflict between
capital and labor that is now being waged
would be we'll nigh solved. There " uld
be few, if any, that would go hun
cry and cold Business men are
learning fast that temperance is
the strongest possible ally to
their business. There Is probably
81 900, 900 wasted annually in Dallas for
liquors. If all this vast sum was eX-
pended for dry goods, boots and shoes,
hats and caps, bread and meat, groceries
and luxuries, what vast difference it
would make in trade, and in the hsppi-
ness and comfort CT the people Dam
gerfield Tidings.
The next great moral crusade after that
against whisky is over, will be one
against tobacco. Then will come in reg
ular waves opium, hemp, clIOral, chlor
OfOrm, and so on to the end Waco
Examiner.
While we favor the prohibition amend
ment IS submitted to the people on the
ground of temperance, hoping by its ad0p-
ton the greatest good viii grow out of it
to the greatest number, we counsel mod
Grafton and due regard for the views
and feelings of the respective voters on
both sides of this grave question. We
doubt the underlying principle OF prohibit
| tory measures in government like ours,
| founded on the principles Of political aud
re igiOUs liberty, cut we hold to the doc
trine thai liberty is not license TO do
wrong, and therefore cling to the fun
damental Truth tat liberty must be
governed BY law. Prohibition advocates
aAd temperance men are two distinct
/ bodies among the people, and while there
are many strictly temperance men who
| will vote sOlidly against the prohibition
amendment, thee are habituGl lntem-
peraGce men who will vote for it. The
question is not one Of easy solution as
some suppose. There are good and true
men who will differ on both sides, and
who are free from partisan or religious
zeal. Cool heads, reason and common
sense are prerequisite qualities fer hu-
man guidance and reform OF abuses which
| have grown up under q loose execution
of laws in governmental Jefferson News.
Not by bold move but by insidious
approaches peoples liberties are lost.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
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